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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs18\kerning28 Executions
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\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     Don\u8217
\'92t get me wrong, I like being an executioner. Its not hard work and it does have
 its perks. I get to use any women that come my way unless the duke says otherwise
. Most of the time all I have to do is keep my tools and equipment in good shape
 and wait for those who are sent to me for punishment. But there\u8217\'92s this
 problem you see. The duke thinks he\u8217\'92s an inventor. Likes to tinker with
 things. I\u8217\'92ll admit he\u8217\'92s got some good ideas like that new pear
 he came up with. Being able to expand either inside or at the opening itself is
 nice and the option of having the spikes is a good idea. The smith went crazy trying
 to make it work but somehow he did and its handy to have. But some of the other
 ideas he has are just awful.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     One day
 he decided that an axe or a sword wasn\u8217\'92t the right answer for beheading
. I tried to talk him out of it. I mean it wasn\u8217\'92t like I was always missing
 the cut or anything like that. I\u8217\'92m pretty good and the rare times I need
 two strokes are not my fault. I can\u8217\'92t help it if they move can I? Anyway
 he gets this idea and he goes off with the smith to build whatever it was he figured
 would be better. So they show up down in the dungeon one day with this thing. It
 had a block with two square sticks on each side. Then there was this big heavy 
blade with extensions on each side that fit between the sticks. On top there was
 a big flat anvil area. A large hammer completed the mess. I understood what he 
was trying to do but I knew it wouldn\u8217\'92t work right. I tried to explain 
it to him but he just had to try it out right away. Like a kid with a new toy he
 gets sometimes. We had this poxy old whore that he condemned right on the spot 
and she got to be the first person to try out the new device. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     Well 
let me tell you things didn\u8217\'92t go too well. First of all the damn blade 
weighed about fifty pounds and damn near strangled the poor woman after we sat it
 on the back of her neck. I tried to tell them that no matter how hard I hit the
 anvil there was no way it would make a clean cut but I had to show then before 
they believed me. I ended up whacking it six times before her head came off but 
I think she was dead by the forth blow. Her neck broke at the first so she didn\u8217
\'92t feel too much but overall it was kind of sad. I mean I have my pride. Unless
 ordered to make somebody suffer I like to do a neat workmanlike job of killing. 
I kept the thing around and one day I got the smith to take the cutting edge off
 and I use it for breaking bones. Works better than the wheel and is less work for
 me. Lifting that damn wheel and slamming it down is hard work. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     Another
 time the boss got this idea for a new rack. He figured having it stand on end would
 save space and by putting the head down there would be more suffering. It would
 have been alright if he\u8217\'92d set it up so either end could go up at the top
 but he didn\u8217\'92t. Another old whore got to try this one out. If he keeps 
it up there wouldn\u8217\'92t be any cheap whores left. Of course being hung upside
 down knocked her out in less than an hour just like I knew it would. Still I kind
 of liked the idea of a vertical rack and there was room so I changed it around 
and still use it today. Works fine as long as the head is up.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     Some 
of his ideas work sort of, some lead to other useful things and some are just bad
 from the git go. He heard someplace about moors that killed captives by bending
 two trees over and tying them to stakes. A leg was tied to each tree and the ropes
 to the stakes cut. The action of the trees springing back up was supposed to rip
 the victim in two from the crotch up. Well he just had to try it. He had men out
 looking for two trees that would work for days. Finally two were found and another
 whore was taken out to them. I hadn\u8217\'92t been out there before but when I
 saw the setup I figured there was going to be trouble. Maybe the moors have got
 different trees that we do but the only ones that seemed willing to bend enough
 was a pair of birches. The poor whore had one ankle tied to each tree and the ro
pes holding them bent over were cut. As planned the trees snapped back upright but
 not all the way. You see birches are soft and flexible and not the strongest trees
 around. They did a fine job of spreading the whore\u8217\'92s legs and from the
 sounds she was making it hurt like hell but she was still in one piece. Now what
, she was about twenty feet up in the air with a leg pointed each way and her body
 hanging down. I\u8217\'92ve got to hand it to the boss. He\u8217\'92s good at covering
 it up when he screws up. He just looked up at her and then ordered me to have a
 guard posted to keep anybody from doing anything and made some statement about 
how he figured that killing a whore by hanging her by her spread legs seemed fitting
. Smooth as butter he was. She lasted almost all night but I never heard anything
 more about trees and splitting people again.\par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     You know
 that executions are free entertainment and the people love to watch some poor bastard
 suffer while he dies. A nice long air dance or two just makes some folk\u8217\'92
s day. Well the boss got to trying different ways of hanging people. I\u8217\'92
d always figured that having a cart pulled out from under them worked just fine. 
A horse was about as good and there\u8217\'92s something about a naked broad sliding
 down a horse\u8217\'92s back and swinging that gets to a man. Turning them off 
a ladder works OK but it\u8217\'92s a lot of work for me. I once tried just pushing
 them off the edge of the scaffold but it didn\u8217\'92t work out so good. They
 kept hitting the edge and it really kept them from dancing very good. Anyway he
 got this idea of how to hang them better, he had a trap door cut in the middle 
of a scaffold and had the gallows beam mounted over the top of the hole. A stick
 held the trap closed while I got the noose around her neck. He thought that the
 rope out be long enough to let her drop down far enough so that she was all the
 way under the scaffold floor. That way everybody could get a look at the last dance
. What the hell, he\u8217\'92s the boss. I got her rigged up and the stick was pulled
 away. The trap opened just fine and she disappeared through it. The rope snapped
 taunt and for a second I thought the whole damn scaffold was coming down but it
 stayed up. When she hit the end of the rope there was a loud snap like a stick 
breaking, She bounced and twisted but never so much as moved a toe. Nothing but 
some quivering, not even any gasping for breath, nothing but a creak of the rope
 and the dripping of her piss. Needless to say those watching were not happy. It
 was a pretty poor show. I figured out that she\u8217\'92d broken her neck when 
she hit the end of the rope and of course had died right away. I kind of thought
 that maybe we were on to something but the boss was so embarrassed that he flat
 forbid me from ever trying it again. I had the trap filed in with a solid floor
 and installed a pulley system. From then on we just lifted them off the floor with
 the pulleys and let them swing. Worked real nice. I still used a horse once in 
a while just because I liked it so well and the crowd seemed to like the change 
too. \par}

\pard\nowidctlpar\nooverflow\sl240\slmult1{\f0\lang1033\fs24\kerning28     Like 
I said I\u8217\'92ve got a good boss but I worry about what he\u8217\'92s going 
to come up with next. \par}

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